Health authorities in Italy on Wednesday said they opened an ethics probe into the actions of a physician and a nurse who had filmed themselves at work throwing away packages of medical supplies produced by Teva Pharmaceuticals to promote a boycott of the Israeli firm.

The health professionals, who trashed the medications for a video they uploaded to social media, apologized for their actions at a public health facility near Arezzo, located about 130 miles north of Rome, and said the packages were recovered from the bins and not actually discarded.

A spokesperson for the South East Tuscany Health Authority (ASL) told the Corriere Fiorentino newspaper that the institution “has already taken steps to analyze the incident and reserves the right to take any necessary action to protect its

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